Courtesy of geeksaresexy.net so I'll link to them, basically students get access to Microsoft Dreamspark, I signed up with my school e-mail address and they sent a verification link to it, aside from that didn't need any confirmation of me being an IT student or not.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/10/...s-server-2008/
There's a lot of free programs in there, Server 08 alone is $1029 so it's pretty solid. Most noticeable to me is the free copy of VPC.
